No Chair is Too Cold for Canada.

Early in September, I celebrated my birthday by flying to Vancouver, British Columbia to make my annual foray to the gorgeous Canadian jewelry store, Birks, for a few birthday baubles. After shopping, I went to see an architectural gem – the “Taj Mahal of Design” - Inform Interiors store on Water Street. Then I shared a Belfast Ham Sandwich at The Salty Tongue with Paul Sjaarda, (pronounced “Sharda”) contract salesperson for Inform Interiors.

Paul represents Emeco well because he has a background in both design and manufacturing and appreciates the Emeco’s synthesis of beauty and brawn. Speaking of beauty and brawn, Paul is the splitting image of Dudley Do-Right, the world famous Mountie - without that moose smell.

Paul’s client, restaurateur Sean Heather, chose Emeco barstools and Navy chairs for his early restaurant, Salt Winebar. For his new deli, The Salty Tongue, in the Gastown district, Heather hired the design firm Evoke International Design which specified red 1951 chairs.

Currently, Paul is proposing Emeco chairs for a large oil company training facility in Alberta, Canada. The oil rigger workers demand heavy-duty durability and only aluminum is up to the challenge! In contrast, Paul just landed a project that will place 22 polished Hudson barstools at the glamorous Shangri-La hotel in Vancouver. Perhaps we can arrange for a real-life Tony and Amelia photo shoot between these 2 locations!





Comcast project

From the beginning Serge Nalbantian, head architect for the 58-floor glass encased tower Liberty Property Trust Building in Philadelphia loved the Foster Chair but was concerned about using it in a high use public space. In order to assure serge that the 20-06 chairs were strong enough, we put a solid piece of aluminum in each leg bend – and tempered the tube and solid bar at the same time – now the chair can support 1000 lbs. of weight on the seat and 125 lbs from each leg – yet its still only 7 lbs.. Gillian Kennedy, our rep in Philadelphia, was persistent about getting his business and worked with Gregg, Dan and Dennis to make sure the chair was up to the client’s high standards.

Later, when Nalbantian made the pilgrimage to Emeco Headquarters in Hanover, and met the craftsmen that build Emeco chairs, and witnessed the quality and strength testing Emeco employs, he was satisfied that he had made the right decision in purchasing 400 chairs and 200 tables for the Comcast Food court in the new building. In fact, when he visited the factory, he saw hundreds of those chairs boxed and ready to ship– Emeco production was ahead of schedule!

Blahopreji! Congratulations Gillian!

Spanning the Globe for AlumiNEWS, Eirual Nosdam